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Running a boot time scan immediately after install, avast found a trojan w32:gen {other} and presented the standard 8 option menu. i selected delete, #1. This worked fine, with a confirmation message that it deleted, and showed the [1] I selected immediately to the right of the word [Exit]
Later, another file came up as infected: Same trojan.
But, when I selected [1] to delete, it showed the selection was [8] which is ignore all.
Obviously, no more infected files were found. I’m currently in the middle of a manual scan, and it seems to be finding the files ok so far, but the error bothers me a bit.
I am on a Compaq Presario, running Win XP Home, with a PS2 keyboard (with all the nifty useless extra keys, though I think those are turned off) and I used the numbers above the keyboard, not the keypad.
I read a variety of 9 pages of topics from a search for “boot time scan” trying to find something similar before I posted. I hope this isn’t a duplicate.
Oh, and thanks to all the experts who are (I believe) volunteering their time here. Great job, folks!
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Perhaps you thought I was some stupid twit who had clicked the wrong button by mistake? I was very clear about exactly what happened, I thought.
Seems to me that this is the type of error which would attract some attention, but maybe not.
I know you folks are volunteers, but some kind of response would have been nice, even if it was; No idea; Send this to the engineers at…
I’ve read your post since from the beggining but I do not use boot time scanning that often.
When I run two times, last week, I have the options, click the buttoms and everything works fine.
I have a PS/2 keyboard too.
How can we know? How can we reproduce your trouble?
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I don’t know that it can be reproduced without an infected computer.
I guess the pertinent questions would be; Is this something which is a vulnerability with particular infections, or is it a one time glitch?
Should I have redownloaded the program? Could it have been a corrupt download?
Or is it likely that a virus/worm exists which has been designed to circumvent Avast’s security measures?
If it’s a glitch, especially due to corrupt download, there’s not much to be done.
If it’s a worm which circumvents or disables portions of Avast, then it’s a programming issue.
As far as my personal issue, I’m assuming I’m fine, since I have already upgraded the program, and am (presumably) clean now.
Thanks for responding. At least I know I’m not just dropping stuff into a black hole here.
I don’t think it’s a download problem, or corruption, or anything else…
Gremlins or you’ve clicked in the wrong button 8)
Be clean, be avast, be happy 
Please send me the log file Avast4\DATA\log\aswBoot.log, unless you run the boot time scan after this, as the log file is rewritten each time.